Posted in Books, tagged Betty Shine, Books, distance healing, mind healing, mind magic, sankars, self-help, serendipity on November 24, 2007 | No Comments »
For years, I used to pity people who were into self-help books (which meant most of America). Until Betty Shine happened.
There I was browsing for more than an hour at Sankars Book Stall when my eye picked out her book, Mind Magic. Maybe it was the jacket blurb. Maybe it was my age – I [...]
Posted in Politics, tagged 1984, 2002, Advani, anti-sikh riots, Bajrang Dal, communalism, fundamentalism, Gujarat, Hindus, Hitler, muslims, Narendra Modi, Praveen Togadia, riots, Shiv Sena, Tehelka, VHP on November 23, 2007 | 3 Comments »
While every secular-sounding newspaper and TV channel is crying itself hoarse on how Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi is the Hitler of India post the government-sponsored Gujarat riots of 2002, I have a simple question: who made him that? Is it LK Advani who rode drunk on his chariot to reclaim the ‘Ram Janmabhoomi’ and [...]
Posted in Bollywood, tagged Arjun Rampal, Bollywood, Deepika Padukone, Farah Khan, Saawariya, Shah Rukh Khan, Vishal-Shekhar on November 20, 2007 | No Comments »
The title just about sums up the little bit of suspense that envelops SRK’s latest starrer. Ofcourse, the storyline has now been told a million times on our promotional TV channels and newspapers/magazines, so I will skip that. But what I will tell you are the following:
Shah Rukh Khan: His screen [...]
Posted in Television, tagged karan thapar, Manu Sharma, NDTV, prannoy roy, Ram Jethmalani, shock and awe, TV, vinod dua on November 20, 2007 | No Comments »
I mimic, therefore I am. This seems to be the credo of TV anchors and news readers today. If some are bad at what they do, others are good at imitating their channel founders. If it’s not Prannoy Roy’s accent on NDTV, it’s Vinod Dua’s Hindi inflection on Aaj Tak. Will people ever find an [...]
Posted in Bollywood, Television, tagged Aaj Tak, Arjun Rampal, Bollywood, Deepika Padukone, Farah Khan, NDTV, Saawariya, Shah Rukh Khan, Times Now, Vishal-Shekhar on November 20, 2007 | No Comments »
The song ‘Dard-e-disco’ in the just-released Hindi film ‘Om Shanti Om’ has become India’s new anthem. No problem with that. It’s got a mellifluous Sufi influence. Has the timbre and tenor needed of a song that waxes eloquent on matters of the heart. But what gets my goat is the way the TV news channels [...]
Posted in Politics, Television, tagged christians, Ekta Kapoor, Indian television, minorities, muslims, RSS, serials, TV on November 20, 2007 | No Comments »
Ekta Kapoor and her counterparts like Dheeraj Kumar and Aruna Irani seem to be intent on saffronising television. Pick any soap on Sony, Star Plus or Zee, and you will see some or the other pooja being telecast into drawing rooms across the country. Agreed, it’s a Hindu-dominated country and such rituals are part and [...]
Posted in Politics, Television, tagged Bangalore, India, Karnataka, Kerala, media, print, radio, TV, Zahid H Javali on November 20, 2007 | No Comments »
There’s a looming threat of misinformation in the Indian subcontinent. Most media houses are either run by businessmen with strong links to politicians or worse, run by the kurta-clad themselves. If it was a covert operation earlier, today the ownership is out in the open. Every political party worth its salt is trying to gather [...]
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